Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791
Subtitle: Debates in the House of Representatives, ... of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791)
Contributors: United States Congress (Editor); Helen E. Veit (Editor); Charlene Bangs Bickford (Editor); Kenneth R. Bowling (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 888
ISBN-13: 9780801845772
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Constitution: government & the state; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1700 to c 1800; Life Sciences - Biology - General; U.S. House Of Representatives; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; Government - Legislative Branch; United States - General; History / United States / General; 1789-1797; Politics and government; Sources; United States
First sentence: On 26 September 1789, in the closing days of the first session, Representative Aedanus Burke moved to chastise those who printed the debates for the "misrepresentation and error" in their accounts and threatened to expel them from the House floor, claiming that their privileged location appeared to give them an official sanction they did not deserve.